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More than 125 visitors enjoyed a discussion with Primary Information’s Ryan Haley, James Hoff, and Miriam Katzeff and Ruth and Marvin Sackner, which was moderated by Emily Mello Deputy Director of Education and Public Programs.

Primary Information has published several projects with materials by writers and artists who are well-represented in the Sackner Archive, including their most recent project, the republishing of An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, the first comprehensive American anthology focusing on the international movement which began in the early 50s. Edited by Emmett Williams and originally published in 1967 by Something Else Press, this seminal book has been out of print for four decades. This event also served as a launch for this new edition. Collectors Marvin and Ruth Sackner who often call their collection an “archive of archives” discussed their book in progress, The Art of Typewriting which will be published by Thames & Hudson in 2015.

Photos by Juan E. Cabrera.

This program is produced as part of the PAMM Researcher-in-Residence program. For their residency, Primary Information, an organization formed in 2006 and devoted to printing artist books, artist writings, out-of-print publications, and editions will make multiple visits to Miami to explore the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry. Primary Information will approach the Sackner Archive without a singular directive, but through a responsive process that they will share through participation in public programs and forms of documentation that are to be determined.